CD (disambiguation)

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A CD or compact disc is a thin plastic silvery disc for audio recordings.

CD or cd may also refer to:

Science and technology

Astronomy and cosmology

  • Cordoba Durchmusterung, a star catalog of the southern sky
  • Cosmological decade or CÐ, a unit of time
  • Type-cD galaxy, a galaxy morphology classification

Biology, ecology, and medicine

  • Coeliac disease, long term autoimmune disorder causing intolerance to gluten
  • Conduct disorder, a psychological disorder
  • Conservation Dependent or LR/cd, an IUCN category
  • Cluster of differentiation, a protocol used for the identification of cell surface molecules on white blood cells
  • Crohn's disease
  • Chlordane
  • Communicable disease

Computing

  • CD-ROM, compact disc technology applied for use in computer data
  • cd (command), a command line command to change the current working directory in operating systems
  • continuous delivery, a software development design practice
  • continuous deployment, a software development design practice
  • collision detection, CSMA/CD

Mathematics

  • cd (elliptic function), one of Jacobi's elliptic functions

Other uses in science and technology

  • Cadmium, symbol Cd, a chemical element
  • Candela or cd, a unit of light intensity
  • -CD, the North American call sign suffix for Class A low-power television stations operating with digital signals
  • Circular dichroism, a form of spectroscopy
  • Critical Dimension, the minimum feature size that a projection system can print in photolithography
  • Drag coefficient or cd, a dimensionless quantity used to quantify the drag of an object in a fluid
  • Cluster decay, a rare mode of nuclear decay

Businesses and organizations

Government, military, and political

Other business and organizations

Places

Other uses

  • 400 (number), written CD in Roman numerals
  • 205 (number), written CD in hexadecimal
  • AD 400 (CD), a year of the Common Era
  • C.D (Criminal or Devil), a psychological thriller movie
  • "CD", a song by T2 (band)
  • cd, for cord (unit) of volume of wood
  • Geely CD, a coupe automobile made by Geely Automobile
  • Cairo Damascus or Damascus Document, a text found among the Dead Sea Scrolls
  • Committee Draft, a status in the International Organization for Standardization
  • Companion dog (title), a title offered to dogs by the American Kennel Club for dog obedience
  • Cross-dressing, the act of wearing clothing associated with the opposite sex
  • Corendon Dutch Airlines (IATA code)
  • Sega Mega-CD

See also

Search for "cd" on Wikipedia.
  • All pages with titles beginning with CD
  • All pages with titles containing CD
  • CDS (disambiguation)
  • CeeDee (disambiguation)
  • C&D (disambiguation)
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